Installed new hard drive not found in vista

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I installed a new hard drive D in my laptop, the drive is found in device
manger but not anywhere else, in vista. I really could do with help, Amy
 
Control Panel..........Administrative Tools............disk
management...........format the sucker then it will show under Explorer.
peter
 
installed vista over xp,
your words.......you have installed Vista OVER XP............no more XP
....no dual boot ..just Vista.............nothing else..nada.
peter
 
New hard drives typically have zeros in every byte of every sector and is
not recognized by the operating system. Go into disk management and check
its status. You typically have to format it and maybe initialize it and
maybe make it active. Just formatting may initialize and make it active - I
haven't tried it on Vista yet.

-Paul Randall
 
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